Twice in the last week, I’ve received two emails from people who get this blog. That’s rare for me. The comments were identical, too. Basically “I hate it when you just send ‘CBMblahblah’ because I don’t know whether I should bother reading the post. Fair. Here’s what you need to know.
What are you missing?
Nothing. If you don’t want to click, don’t click. Maybe you’re too busy. Lots of people say they are. Until they’re suddenly not busy at all.
But what you could learn from these stories is a blend of where business, culture, technology, and life might be taking everyone. Those are my filters. Business/culture/technology/life. And through those, I run thousands of articles from which I pick 10-11 that I think might be interesting, and I give you just a bite of context, plus links to what I shared that might be of note to you.
The value is there. You just have to choose to extract it.
Click the damned link and check out the show. It’s VIDEO, by the way. It’s not text. And it’s fast.
Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 10/19/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account).
This live video was all shot using Ecamm Live (client), the best way to do Facebook Live for Mac.
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Stories Shared
Former US president George W Bush says the whole bigotry and racism thing is out of hand – stop it. (I second this.)
This isn’t just a political view. It costs money. It costs a half a million US dollars just for the security to allow a white supremacist to share his views at a college. A half million dollars is quite a lot of scholarships.
It’s enough to make you want to leave the planet. Well, good news. Evidently, we can just 3d Print rockets now. Talk about Star Trek.
Science fiction often leads to science fact. This really cool bundle offering will give money to Nasa and give YOU a whole bundle of cool sci fi books (Thanks to Gray Rinehart for this story.)
Speaking of shared stories, I published a piece about blockchain resources the other day. I got a tweet from Dr. Kirti Patel about her experiences in blockchain as they relate to her own exploration. Very worth checking out.
And it’s okay to be uncertain about it all. The guy who invented the WWW just told blockchain people to look at potential consequences.
Evidently, Google is helping Lyft by giving them a billion bucks to battle Uber.
What happens when your home is about to vanish off the face of the earth? Here’s what you should pack in your go-bag.
Is networking important? Don’t ask Jared Leto.
In “the marketplace has shifted” news, Amazon says that 63% of people using Amazon in the US are Prime customers.
In random news from the land of cannabis, you can get pumpkin spiced cannabis this season.
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